Unless Tatsuya was being overly dramatic, no, it didn't.
He just wishes he could be more surprised about it, like he isn't used to things going wrong, or there suddenly being strings attached to something, strings that have the potential to strangle you if you aren't damn careful. But he can't, so the best he can do is grimace some more. He's not particularly happy to be and the beck and call of some entity that didn't mind treating them all like lab rats. That's what they had been in that tower, rats for him to observe and take notes on as they responded to the inhuman circumstances present there, to wait and see if the rats behaved like he had bet on. If they reacted like he theorized, he got to go home with bragging rights.
"Not sure if there's much we can do about it."
And that wasn't pessimism talking. Just a statement of fact. They were already here, and the most they could do is deal with what was thrown at them as best they could and be cautious about it. Maybe an opening would surface sometime, but the fact didn't change is that they were only here because of Philemon. Some could back out and go home, quit the game, but that option wasn't much of an alternative for plenty of people here.
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He just wishes he could be more surprised about it, like he isn't used to things going wrong, or there suddenly being strings attached to something, strings that have the potential to strangle you if you aren't damn careful. But he can't, so the best he can do is grimace some more. He's not particularly happy to be and the beck and call of some entity that didn't mind treating them all like lab rats. That's what they had been in that tower, rats for him to observe and take notes on as they responded to the inhuman circumstances present there, to wait and see if the rats behaved like he had bet on. If they reacted like he theorized, he got to go home with bragging rights.
"Not sure if there's much we can do about it."
And that wasn't pessimism talking. Just a statement of fact. They were already here, and the most they could do is deal with what was thrown at them as best they could and be cautious about it. Maybe an opening would surface sometime, but the fact didn't change is that they were only here because of Philemon. Some could back out and go home, quit the game, but that option wasn't much of an alternative for plenty of people here.